Famous Sisters
All over the world, ancient cultures saw the same star cluster in the sky, and nearly all of them saw seven sisters. Can you guess which constellation this is?
The Pleiades — also known as the “Seven Sisters” — appear in myths from nearly every corner of the globe.
In Greek mythology, they’re daughters of Atlas, fleeing the hunter Orion. In Japan, they’re called Subaru, symbolizing unity. In Aboriginal Australian stories, they’re ancestral women chased across the sky. Across Indigenous America, Hindu texts, and African traditions, the same pattern repeats — seven sister-like figures in the stars, often pursued.
Here’s the mind-blowing part:
Astronomers and anthropologists believe these stories may go back over 100,000 years — long before writing, before nations, even before humans spread across the continents.
That would make the tale of the Seven Sisters possibly the oldest surviving story in the world — told by firelight, passed from mouth to mouth, under a shared sky.
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